Reframing Organizations. Lee G. Bolman

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2021

      We noted in our first edition, “Book writing often feels like a lonely process, even when an odd couple is doing the writing.” This odd couple keeps getting older (ancient, to be more precise) and, some would say, even grumpier. It seems like only yesterday that we were young, aspiring new authors full of vim and vigor. But that was 40 years ago. To our amazement, we're still at it, and, even more remarkable, have remained close friends.

      The best thing about teaching and book‐writing is that you learn so much from your readers and students, and we have been blessed to have so many of both. They have come from a number of institutions: Stanford, Harvard, Vanderbilt, the University of Missouri–Kansas City, the University of La Verne, and the University of Southern California, and have given us invaluable criticism, challenge, and support over the years. (Lee gives a special shout‐out to everyone in his Fall, 2020, course at Harvard Extension, who kept generating ideas and finding great stuff to read. Particular thanks to Lisa Chisholm, Monica Eaton, Thomas Gibson, Kyle Kenney, Sharon Loh, Marissa Mann, Kafi Rouse, Jay Sivasailam, Deise Uema, Jared Weikum, and Vincent Zhou.)

      We're also grateful to the many readers who have responded to our open invitation to write and ask questions or share comments, including readers from many other countries, including Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, France, Italy, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela. They have helped us write a better book. (The invitation is still open—our contact information is in “The Authors.”) We wish we could personally thank all of the leaders and managers who helped us learn in seminars, workshops, and consultations. Their knowledge and wisdom are the foundation and touchstone for our work. The list is long and varied.

      A number of friends and colleagues at the Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference have given us many helpful ideas and suggestions. We apologize for any omissions, but we want to thank Anke Arnaud, Carole K. Barnett, Max Elden, Kent Fairfield, Cindi Fukami, Olivier Hermanus, Jim Hodge, Earlene Holland, Scott Johnson, Mark Kriger, Hyoungbae Lee, Larry Levine, Mark Maier, Magid Mazen, Thomas P. Nydegger, Dave O'Connell, Lynda St. Clair, Mabel Tinjacá, Susan Twombly, and Pat Villeneuve. We can only wish we had succeeded in implementing all the wonderful ideas we received from these and other colleagues.

      Lee is grateful to all his Bloch School colleagues, and particularly to Nancy Day, Pam Dobies, Dave Donnelly, Doranne Hudson, Jae Jung, Tusha Kimber, Sandra Kruse‐Smith, Rong Ma, Brent Never, Roger Pick, Stephen Pruitt, Laura Rees, David Renz, Marilyn Taylor, and Bob Waris. Terry's colleagues, Carl Cohn, Stu Gothold, and Gib Hentschke, of the University of Southern California, have offered both intellectual stimulation and moral support. Terry's (2013) team‐teaching venture with President Devorah Lieberman and Professor Jack Meek of the University of La Verne showed what's possible when conventional boundaries are trespassed in a class of aspiring undergraduate leaders.

      Others to whom our debt is particularly clear are John Aasted, Homa Aminmadani, the late Chris Argyris, Sam Bacharach, Cliff Baden, Margaret Benefiel, Estella Bensimon, Bud Bilanich, Bob Birnbaum, Barbara Bunker, Tom Burks, Ellen Castro, Carlos Cortés, Linton Deck, Dave Fuller, Ellen Harris, Jim Honan, Jim Hynes, Tom Johnson, Bob Kegan, James March, Grady McGonagill, Judy McLaughlin, John Meyer, Kevin Nichols, Harrison Owen, Donna Redman, Peggy Redman, Michael Sales, Karl Weick, Julie Wheeler, Roy Williams, and Joe Zolner. Thanks as always to Dave Brown, Tim Hall, Todd Jick, Bill Kahn, Phil Mirvis, and Barry Oshry of the Group previously known as the Brookline Circle, now in its fifth decade of searching for joy and meaning in lives devoted to the study of organizations, even with its members mostly retired and spread across five different states.

      Outside the United States, we are grateful to Poul Erik Mouritzen in Denmark; Rolf Kaelin, Cüno Pumpin, and Peter Weisman in Switzerland; Ilpo Linko in Finland; Tom Case in Brazil; Einar Plyhn and Haakon Gran in Norway; Peter Normark and Dag Bjorkegren in Sweden; Ching‐Shiun Chung in Taiwan; Helen Gluzdakova and Anastasia Vitkovskaya in Russia; and H.R.H. Prince Philipp von und zu Lichtenstein.

      Four professional winemakers, the late Romeo “Meo” Zuech of Piedra Creek Winery, Brett Escalera of Consilience, and Tre Anelli and Bob Shiebelhut of Tolosa, offer advice that applies to leadership as well as wine making. Meo reminds us, “Never over‐manage your grapes,” and Brett prefaces answers to all questions with “It all depends.” On the East Coast, members of two neighborhood groups, Feet First and the Salisbury Road Book Club, have helped to maintain sanity and spirit even when the pandemic blocked our traditional sharing of food and drink

      We're delighted to be well into the fourth decade of our partnership with Jossey‐Bass and Wiley. We're grateful to the many friends who have helped us over the years, including Bill Henry, Steve Piersanti, Lynn Luckow, Bill Hicks, Debra Hunter, Cedric Crocker, Byron Schneider, Kathe Sweeney, and many others. In recent years, Jeanenne Ray has been a wonderful editor and friend.

      We again dedicate this book to our wives, who have more than earned all the credit and appreciation that we can give them. Joan Gallos, Lee's spouse and closest colleague, combines intellectual challenge and critique with support and love. She has been an active collaborator in developing our ideas, and her teaching manual for previous editions has been a frame‐breaking model for the genre. Her contributions have become so integrated into our own thinking that we are no longer able to thank her for all the ways that the book has gained from her wisdom and insights.

      Sandy Deal's psychological training enables her to approach the field of organizations


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